SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress, when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”
The Starlink system calls for a constellation of nearly 12,000…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
September 18, 2021
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
The rotorcraft captures nuances of rocky outcrop during aerial reconnaissance.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound during…
NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions on Mars
September 16, 2021
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NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions on Mars
Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a…
Visionary Tech Concepts Could Pioneer the Future in Space
September 15, 2021
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Visionary Tech Concepts Could Pioneer the Future in Space
Dozens of concepts are being presented at this year’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium, including eight led by technologists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA missions make it seem like the future is now – rovers exploring Mars with cutting-edge gadgets, a spacecraft…
SpaceX is about to send its first crew of private citizens to space
September 14, 2021
Four people are set to launch to space Wednesday night aboard a SpaceX capsule, and none of them are professional astronauts. Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, booked the Crew Dragon capsule last year and picked three normal folks to ride with…
LittleBigPlanet online security issues blamed for permanent server shutdown on PS3 and Vita
September 14, 2021
Sony has permanently shut down the servers for the original three LittleBigPlanet games on Playstation 3 and the handheld LittleBigPlanet on the Playstation Vita, according to a tweet posted by the official LittleBigPlanet account on Monday (via IGN).
The new status quo…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
September 11, 2021
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
The rocks it has analyzed for sample collection are helping the team better understand a past marked by volcanic activity and water.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the…
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Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards
The three award recipients – Diana Trujillo, Christina Hernandez, and Clara O’Farrell – are engineers from the NASA rover team.
Three Latina…
NASA sets new date for James Webb Space Telescope launch
September 8, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next big space-bound eye on the cosmos, has a new launch date of December 18th, NASA announced on Wednesday. It’s the latest among dozens of other delays for a telescope that was originally planned to go to space as early as…
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NASA to Host Briefing on Successful Sample Collection of Martian Rock
Panelists will discuss the Perseverance rover’s successful collection of the sample and latest science analysis.
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing Friday, Sept. 10, at noon EDT to provide an update on the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, which recently completed its first…
